1. Business Partners Sold-to party .......... Ship-to party Partner
functions
Personnel
Carrier
Payer
Bill-to party
Customers (sold-to party, ship-to party, payer, bill-to party) are stored in the customer master record.
Vendors (such as carriers) are stored in the vendor master record.
Data on employees of your own company (for example, sales representatives or office staff) is stored in the personnel master record. Each employee can be identified by their personnel number in all transactions.

2. Customer Master Sold-to party Ship-to party Customer master
Bill-to party
Payer
The system provides appropriate entry screens for the different functions of the business partner in sales and distribution.
Data for a business partner can be created with reference to another record (copying function).

3. Customer Master General Data Company code data Sales area data
Sales area data is the basic data for sales and distribution.
Company code data is the basic data for financial accounting.
General data is accessed by both areas. The customer number in sales and distribution and the customer number in the accounting department are therefore identical.

4. Customer Master from Sales Viewpoint
Customer : K1 Sales organisation : 1000 Distribution channel : 01 Division : 01
General data
Address Control data Marketing Unloading points Contact person
valid for both
accounting and sales
Sales area data
Sales Shipping
Billing
Output Partner functions
dependent on:
- sales organisation
- distribution channel
- division
Sales data on the customer master is maintained by sales area.
General data is data shared between both sales and accounting.

5. Maintaining Customer Data
Accounting
View
Sales
View
Company
Code
Data
Sales
and
Distribution
General
Maintain 揅entrally?will maintain all areas
Maintenance in Sales only maintains Sales Data / General data
Maintenance in Accounting only maintains Company Code Data / General Data
Data Views
Company Code Data (Accounting)
Account Management
Payment Transactions
Correspondence
Insurance
Sales and Distribution Data (Sales)
Sales
Shipping
Billing
Output
Partner Functions
General Data (Shared)
Address
Control Data
Marketing
Unloading Points
Contact Persons
Central
View
NOTE: Sales and distribution data
maintained for each sales area

6. Definition of Business Partners in the Sold-to party master record
Sold-to party : C1 Sales organisation : Distribution channel : 01 Division : 01
Partner functions: Buyer Mr Smith Ship-to party Central storage area Ship-to party External storage area Carrier Mills Inc. Sales representative Mr Miller
You define all possible partner functions in a table.
Several partners can be defined for a partner function in the customer master record (see ship-to party above). If this is the case, in a given business transaction the system lists all the partners to whom this partner function has been assigned.
You can assign partner functions by entering a:
Customer number for a customer (for example, ship-to party)
Vendor number for a vendor (for example, carrier)
Number for a contact person (for example, in purchasing department at customer)
Personnel number for an employee of your own company (for example, sales representative)

7. Functions of the account group
Standard account groups
Sold to 0001
Ship to 0002
Payer
Bill to
One-time CPD/CPDA
Other ????
Number range
Data views
Default data set-up
Default partner functions
Account group 搊ther?used for user defined account groups
Account group must be specified when business partner is created
Account group number will default for standard account groups
Will define
Data defaults
Default views
Partner functions
etc....
In standard, all customers must have 揝OLD TO?party defined
All parties will be the same unless overridden by the user
Partner functions for each account group will define which partners are created for the party